Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Artois, early 14th century
MS G.59 fol. 45v

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Innocents: Massacre -- Herod the Great, crowned, sits with legs crossed. His left hand rests on his knee and with his right hand, he points to a veiled mother crouching on the ground and holding an infant. Above her an executioner raises a sword. Scene within a crocketed trefoil architectural frame and a finial, within initial C decorated with interlace and foliage, gold diapered background, and diapered spandrels.
Margins - Rectilinear bars decorated with foliage, and inhabited by two birds, and a dog pursuing rabbit.